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gr-qc2009★ 9 cited
Are Black Hole Starships Possible
Louis Crane, Shawn Westmoreland
We investigate whether it is physically possible to build starships or power sources using the Hawking radiation of an artificial black hole as a power source. The proposal seems t…
gr-qc2007
On the principle of relativity and electrostatics in a flat spacetime with a compact spatial dimension
Shawn Westmoreland
We study a flat spacetime with a compact spatial dimension and dispute the claim of Bansal, Laing, and Sriharan that a local experiment can determine whether or not an inertial obs…